Osgoode Hall

Toronto, Canada

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Osgoode Hall is a landmark courthouse in downtown Toronto, Ontario, completed in 1832 from a design by John Ewart and William Warren Baldwin. The 2½-storey building, named for William Osgoode, the first Chief Justice of Upper Canada, exemplifies late Georgian Palladian and Neoclassical styles. Originally constructed between 1829 and 1832 to house the regulatory body for lawyers in Ontario and its law school, it was formally home to Osgoode Hall Law School from 1889—the province's only recognized professional law school at that time. Today it houses the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Divisional Court of the Superior Court of Justice, the offices of the Law Society of Ontario, and the Great Library of the Law Society. The building is designated a national historic site of Canada and a provincial heritage property.